joining me now, managing editor of the washington examiner magazine, jay caruso. y, good morning to you. great to see you on this thursday morning, the last day of april. let's talk about some of what the president is doing, appear to go revert to his old ways when implying that the coronavirus will be eradicated, will completely go away even without a vaccine and we will go back to the moment before this all started, not our new normal. what do you make of this? >> this is one of those situations where i'm waiting to come on and i hear the president's comments and the video you're showing me, the mixture of my -- me shaking my head and laughing in a way that's not funny. the president -- i don't understand what the president's -- what his malfunction is in that he always seems to go contradict the scientists on his team. it's like they're having a conversation and there must be a tidbit of something where they -- somebody explores the minute possibility that, yes, maybe by the end of the summer the virus goes away, but the chances of that are 50 billion to one. do

caruso, thank you so much. former head of the energy information administration. we will have more on the outlook for commodities ahead. we will speak exclusively to take line in the next -- jayn as some investors see gold hitting a record. this is bloomberg. ♪ rg. ♪ karina: this is "daybreak asia." i am karina mitchell with the first word headlines. the u.s. and china continue to trade barbs about the coronavirus, each saying the other should have done better. washington said beijing covered up the extent of the infections. now, washington says china and the world health organization have let the rest of the world down. has not sharedl the virus sample from inside of china with the outside world, making it impossible to track the disease's evolution. >> i am making a legal determination on china's adherence to the ihr, but the world health organizations regulatory arm clearly failed during this pandemic. karina: new york state reported under 500 new virus best, its lowest daily total since the start of the month. that pushes the number of fatalities passed 15,000 amid reports people started dying in the u.s. weeks earlier than thought. in deaths in california february have n